CVE-2024-9589: Aftabhusain Category And Taxonomy Meta Fields

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'new_meta_name' parameter in the 'wpaft_option_page' function in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• Aftabhusain Category And Taxonomy Meta Fields: up to and including 1.0.0

Published 2024-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.